That one of the main characters is a painter is perhaps hinted at in the blue swirling brush of a seascape that takes up most of the cover, but overall it’s a beautifully composed and evocative piece ...

When a popular cover starts to fly, it’s very hard to retroactively attach a design credit to it. Publishing (and the media that supports it) has to be better at this. One of the covers featured below ...

to a manga artist focused on cover art and illustrations, and an artisan who inherited the techniques of watoji, a traditional binding technique that flourished in the Edo period. Book design ...

We're often advised not to judge a book by its cover. However ... Take our quiz, and see how clever design might be influencing your book choices. All the covers in this quiz feature in the ...